Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-09
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STATE NEWS

A gas well viii be bored near Hum
bOldt, in Allen county
The English sparrow has colonized
Osborne and appears to feel at home.
OF the $4,000 swedes in Kansas,
MCPHERSON has more Of them than any
county IN the state.
In Grant county farmers weight down
their hay with pumpkins 60 keep the
wind from Blowing it away.
Newton Republican: Last year at
this season the railroads in northern
Kansas were blockaded with snow.
Coldwater Review: Coldwater is still
showing substantial improvement and
number of buildings are under way.
A party of Wa-Keeney young men
were out on an antelope hunt the other
day and succeeded in bringing down
two.
Frank Hurlburt, a blind boy who
graduated from the school for the blind
at Wyandotte, now holds homestead
claim in Stanton county.
Newton Republican: Prof. Horner
considers the silk station at Peabody a
failure, and offers to establish q ''silkeFy''
at Wichita for 81, goo bonus.
Mansfield Ash, of Mcpherson county,
is 20 yesFs old and has never been on a
railroad car. His candidate for the
presidency next year is Andrew jackson.
The mayor of Girard moved into an
addition to that beautiful little city, and
now petition has been presented TO the
council asking that body to declare the
Office of mayor vacant.
DR.. Damour, who was prosecuted at
Waterville for violation Of the prOhibi-
tory law, has been let of with fine and
costs amounting to $780, and resi-
dence OF sixty days IN jail.
Kansas Pioneer: We are informed 0y
the county treasurer that more taxes
have been paid this year up to the pres
emit time, than were paid during the
same length Of time last year.
The frsb apple orchard in Kansas
consisted OF $50 trees brought all the
way from Ilinoia In a wagon and plant
ed in Douglas county, in 1855. Today
the state has thirty million of fruit trees.
Horton Headlight: Recently. from
the corner Of Front and Trenton streets
we counted fOrty-seven new buildings
under course of construction. There
are over 800 in course Of erection in this
city.
Several British land companies have
begun to dispose Of their lands in this
state, end viii not be forced into a close
market by the constitutional amendment
to prevent aliens holding real estate
within Kansas limits
The city council of Wichita has refused
Ito pay q hill OF SI00 for arms and
; equipments purchased for the meropol-
! itan police, and tine firm which sold the
! goods has brought suit against the city
to recover the amount.
) Dighton Republican: Jake Doh
4 brought to this Office a fine specimen of
! centipede which was caught by his wife.
s Not many Wo nen have the nerve TO cap
, ture such a reptile. Mrs. Doll deserves
! great credit for her courage.
A man 81 years old took out a
: marriage license, in Mcpherson, for him
2 self and a handsome young woman. The
y women then wanted more time TO con-
q slider the proposition, and getting tired
q Of waiting, the license was returned
9 unused TO the probate judge.
a WaverIy News: John Six met re-
/, Gently with what might have been
I, serious accident. While digging coal
t the bank caved in burying him in the
n dirt up to his neck, squeezing him pretty
l. badly. Assistance came at once and
released him. No bones were broken.
George and Martha Washington have
fled a suit in the district court OF
g CowIey county against IA. s. Darrough
for $4,000 damages for false imprisOn-
4 ment. The plaintiffs are sOlOred people
> whom the defendant had arrested upon
3 the charge Of setting fire to bis haystsck
J, last summer.
d Cash City Cashier: Gold and silver
n ore quite rich in pure metal has been
d discovered at several locations within
" the county. There is no doubt OF its
re- being genuine, as samples of the ore
j. have been analysed with satisfactory
al results. The only question is as 70
II whether the ore exists in paying guam
sr titles.
t Louis Bellanci, a rather wealthy
al italian of Wichita, bought the daugbtai
4 of one Carrara. The young girl object
N ed to the wedding, but was forced intC
Of It. Soon after she learned that hel
4 fathers contract was not binding on hel
= and she refused to live with the man
n Recently Bsllanci shot at her and be-
t. parsmour and was arrested for intent t
"a kin.
le9 Winfield Courier: A party of mel
5e near Besre City, chased a gang Of tWelv
horses thieves into the Pan-Handle
where they cornered them, killing eigh
Of them with WinchesteIs and hangin,
,a the other four. This rids that part o
he the country of a desperate gang OF hons
&C. thieves and cut-thEORts. A EeLa5iVs O
- Bob FarDsWorth was among the pars
Is that chased the thieves and he got bal
ng in his thigh. Several Of the men tia
at were chasing the thieves also receive
Il: wounds.
,st Coldwaber Review: Several wage
,c- loads Of salt from the vast salt plains @
ls this county were sold on the street.
". Monday, at S. a ton. With a count
y boss soil Is unsurpassed FOR fertility
whose climate is saiubEiOus ana healthy
whose vast deposits Of superior coal a
- found but seventy feet under the suRfae.
5eIP and whose hundreds Of acres Of pun
ans salt can be had for the scOOping oft ~
and the quantity inexhaustible 90
zen quality superior, We are bound to hecOu
] Il one Of the great counties OF Enatehie.
Ter Kansas. Some Of our neighborB a.
DOL. making a great ado about finding salt